ABC World Series coverage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8ExMR0c0aM
Al Michaels was always cool as a cucumber.
Funny how it coincided with the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Bump
If it hadn’t been for the World Series, people wouldn’t have taken-off from work, early, to attend the game. And, hundreds more would have been in the commute on that “Cypress Freeway!”
And the earthquake wasn’t even there. It was in the Santa Cruz area, 70 miles away from the Bay Area non-maintained infrastructure.
I was in a two story Apple building in Cupertino. When it started I decided to run down a central stairway which led to a courtyard and then to the back parking lot. It took both hands on the railings to stay upright on the stairs. Later in the middle of the parking lot it took complete attention to stay on your feet. You could see waves in the asphalt coming at you. It took hours for most people to get home but I commuted by bike so I passed all the traffic. Nothing unusual at home except the pool was missing two feet of water.
I was there.
Oh, MY! My brother and I were in his furnished basement, getting ready for game 2. We lived halfway between San Francisco and Santa Cruz. We even still had television rabbit ears antenna. The rabbit ears began to move. While my brother and I were standing up, we were not moving enough to make the antenna move. I motioned for my brother to join me in the door jam. As the earthquake became more powerful, I had my hands on the door jam. When the big wave came through, the house was yanked out of my hands. We ran out into the back yard, and safety. While the epicenter was in the Santa Cruz mountains, specifically Loma Prieta, the energy spread out. Some of the worst damage was in a very nice SF area, The Marina District. The bridge and freeway damage was intense. When things calmed down, we walked around our neighborhood to see if anyone needed help. There was this level of dust in the air, as if someone had made the Earth jump up and down.
It was an unusually warm day (Earthquake Weather) and a breeze was blowing.
So, I had my front screen-door open.
My two boys were upstairs and when the quake hit, they flew down the stairs (figuratively speaking) and out the front door with me close behind!
It was comical but not.
kind of a bad year for everything, iirc.
My relatives in Santa Barbara felt this earthquake.
My brother-in-law was on the freeway and pulled over, he thought he had a flat tire - lots of other people pulled over and said they also thought they had flat tires.
I remember seeing images of the collapsed Cypress Freeway in Oakland, thought the road had just broken up - until my husband told me it was a double decker road that had collapsed, trapping drivers underneath. Very sad.
To this day, I am nervous crossing the Bay Bridge and breathe a sigh of relief when we’ve crossed it.
I remember that very well. I was in the hospital where my why was getting an x-ray taken with a big xray matching over her, when the quake hit and everything started shaking. We were rushed out of the hospital with her in the gurney and spent most of the night there in the parking lot with dozens of other patients. I’ll never forget that day.
I was living in Santa Clara at the time.
Dove under my desk and said calmly to myself “I wonder if I’m going to die today?”
I saw the shock waves in the concrete floor.